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🗓️ 13 June 2023
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Two murders, weeks apart.
Teen cheerleader Amie Hoffman vanished after leaving her part-time job. Two days later, her body is found floating in a retention tank at a local reservoir. Hoffman has been sex assaulted and stabbed repeatedly.
Twelve days later 25-year-old Deirdre O’Brien, 25, bangs on a truck driver’s door at a desolate rest stop pleading for help. She also has been stabbed. Before O’Brien dies, she describes her attacker as tall and slender with bushy hair and some facial hair.
No arrest is immediately made, but the next year, 1983, a break in the case surfaces. James Koedatich calls police, describing his escape from an attacker, who stabbed him. As emergency responders take Koedatich out on a stretcher, a responding officer sees a car that matches descriptions of a vehicle spotted at the mall the night of Hoffman's disappearance and at the rest stop where O’Brien is attacked.
The next day, Koedatich is named a suspect in the cases.
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0:45.1 | A gorgeous teen girl murdered. And what does her murder have to do with the seemingly unrelated |
0:56.4 | stabbing separated by time and distance? |
1:00.9 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thanks for being with us here at FoxNation and |
1:05.9 | SiriusXM111, first of all, just who is Amy Hoffman? Take a listen to our friends at |
1:14.5 | crimealign.com. Invest in a reporter, Dave Mac. Amy Hoffman came to the US when she was five |
1:20.2 | years old from her native Korea. She was adopted by Florence Hoffman and her husband Frank, |
1:25.2 | a friendly and sociable high school senior. Hoffman is a member of the cheerleading team at |
1:29.1 | Parsipini Hills High School, and dating a member of the football team. She also works part time |
1:33.5 | two nights a week at the surprise store, a women's clothing store in the local mall. |
1:37.6 | The money she makes is going toward her college plans, studying to be a chiropractor. |
1:41.8 | You know, I'm thinking about Amy Hoffman, this teen girl, all excited about the chance to |
1:47.6 | wear a crown and compete for, I guess, high school queen, along with her boyfriend, |
1:56.4 | a timely life when everything seemed good, everything seemed right. You know, when you're |
2:02.8 | at that young age, you don't think about forever. You don't even think about the next hour or |
2:09.6 | mortality. But sadly, her family was forced to think about it with me and all-star panel to make |
2:16.0 | sense of what we know right now. When was it noticed? She was missing. Take a listen again to |
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